CVE-2024-4284 Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
An attacker with manager or admin privileges can cause a denial of service by setting a user's ID to 0, rendering the account inaccessible.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4284?
CVE-2024-4284 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm, published on 19 May 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows for a denial of service (DoS) condition through the modification of a user's `id` attribute to a value of 0. This issue affects the current version of the software, with the latest commit id `57984fa85c31988b2eff429adfc654c46e0c342a`. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker, with manager or admin privileges, can render a chosen account completely inaccessible. The application's mechanism for suspending accounts does not provide a means to reverse this condition through the UI, leading to uncontrolled resource consumption. The vulnerability is introduced due to the lack of input validation and sanitization in the user modification endpoint and the middleware's token validation logic. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.0 of the software.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4284?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mintplexlabs Anythingllm.
How do I fix CVE-2024-4284?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4284 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-4284 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-4284 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Mintplexlabs Anythingllm
- CVE-2024-3025 Path Traversal in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
- CVE-2024-0455 SSRF on AWS deployed instances of AnythingLLM via /metadata
- CVE-2026-32626 AnythingLLM has a Streaming Phase XSS to RCE via LLM Response Injection
- CVE-2024-3104 Remote Code Execution in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
- CVE-2024-3149 SSRF in mintplex-labs/anything-llm
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qjr6-p4j5-v4qx.